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Akola, Washim, Nagpur, Wardha, Parbhani, Jeur, Nanded and Sholapur have touched mid and high 30's in the last one week. Heat stress is likely to build up further and may not augur well for the wheat crop across the state. ....
Drought Is Not Simply a Natural Calamity, It Is Also Driven by Commercial Greed In his foreword to Kavitha Iyer s book Landscapes of Loss , P. Sainath writes about the commodification of water and the thriving thirst economy in the Marathwada region. Representative image of a handpump. Photo: nevil zaveri/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) As India witnesses its largest-ever farmers’ agitation, Landscapes of Loss: The Story of an Indian Drought, a new book by Kavitha Iyer, takes a close look at several of the deeper issues that have been afflicting the country’s farming community for decades now and brought it to this desperate pass. ....